Under pressure Costa Concordia’s previous salute Course on Jan 6, 2012 ITALY Porto San Stefano Giglio Giglio Porto Course on Approximate Jan 13, 2012 incident (day of incident) location Pier Luigi Francesco Schettino, Foschi, captain of the Costa Costa CEO Course on Concordia 1 km Aug 14, 2011 Friday January 13 Sunday January 15 Costa chief executive Pier Luigi Tuesday January 17 Wednesday January 18 Foschi apologises for wreck, Costa Concordia sails from Costa issues statement that defends company’s safety Audio emerges of Coastguard Lloyd’s List, the industry’s Civitavecchia and runs aground ‘preliminary indications’ suggest record, criticises captain but says and Schettino arguing over why newspaper and information three hours later off the coast of ‘significant human error’ by crew acted like heroes. Captain captain left the ship as service, shows the Costa Giglio. Coastguard issues Schettino. Schettino is reported made an ‘unapproved, passengers were still boarding Concordia came within 230 warning after relatives of to have gone close to shore to unauthorised’ manoeuvre to lifeboats. Schettino appears in metres of the shore when it passengers phone authorities ‘salute’ a former captain change the programmed course, court, admits he sailed close to ‘saluted’ in August (see map). Foschi said. shore and is placed under house Costa issues statement that it arrest. Missing and dead total 29 Saturday January 14 Monday January 16 He adds a similar salute was would refund passengers for the people Costa Cruises confirms wreck Prosecutor Francesco Verusio approved by company in August cruise and expenses but cites no cause. Media reports says he is investigating captain on a similar course. The 69 people missing. Captain for manslaughter, abandoning approved course that time was Thursday January 19 Francesco Schettino is detained ship and causing a shipwreck no closer than 500 metres, he Costa files suits as an injured by prosecutors says party in the shipwreck. The cruise ship remains in the sea, threatening the coast with Photos: AP, AFP 500,000 gallons of fuel.